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Word: feets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile from Cow Creek, Driver Derossett eased down a slight incline beside the Big Sandy. Two hundred feet ahead, a wrecker was maneuvering across Highway 23 to pull a truck out of a ditch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Beneath the Big Sandy | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...rooftops and balconies. Arab nationalists streamed over from Lebanon bearing banners: "We give our lives for you, Gamal." Shouting paraders carried coffins labeled "U.S.A.," "Eisenhower Doctrine," "Baghdad Pact." One old man told the beaming Nasser: "All Arabs love you. You will carry on the glory of our ancestors." "Your feet are more stable than mountains, your hand will make the future," cried one shabbily dressed woman, tears of emotion streaking her cheeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC: Visitor from Cairo | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...which have to be manned." He added: "If Russia, with her incomparably larger forces, were to launch an all-out attack, then the Western Allies would have the choice of striking back with nuclear weapons or submitting to defeat and occupation." The Victory-for-Socialism Laborites leaped to their feet shouting "Suicide." Sandys replied by quoting the words of Clement Attlee, uttered when he led the Labor Opposition three years ago: "It is no use telling the Russians that we would not be the first to use a hydrogen bomb in a war . . . It would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Concurrence on Deterrence | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...show girl making $200 a week, the leggy brunette got only $25 a month for support of her two children. Another airman, moon-faced Space Man Donald Farrell, 23, of The Bronx, turned out to have an ex-bride and a 4½-year-old daughter. To Farrell, his feet barely steady after an imaginative seven-day excursion through space (in a grounded chamber in Texas), the revelation meant that his penpal romance with a Niagara Falls secretary was "up in the air." An expert on more earthly pleasures, bestselling Novelist Grace Metalious, 33, popped into an Alabama court, picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...British owners dug nearly $300 million worth of gold over the years from a maze of galleries running five miles into the earth, they never laid a serious shovel on the iron. In fact, they had bought the lematite ridges humping hundreds of feet high around the property only to protect water rights for their gold mining. Hanna will modernize the gold mine, but the main play is iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: The Heart of Gold | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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